It is almost impossible to know what is going on inside a newsroom that is considering your application. Even so, a week is plenty long enough to wait when one editor says another will call you soon. Go ahead and ask.

A new book for journalists, Overcoming Bias, relies on social cognition studies, how we look out at the world and understanding our own frames of reference.

Unpaid internships, like one at Harper’s Bazaar that sparked a lawsuit against Hearst, are bad business for interns and bad news for industries because they set family income as the barrier to entry.

Journalists who get hung up on the word “hacker” in Mark Zuckerberg’s filing to take Facebook pubic are missing some key concepts that are desperately needed for newsroom innovation.

2012 will have the biggest journalism convention in four years. Here’s your rundown on the year’s key conventions, links to the right websites and some leads on saving money and a few opportunities for students.